Table I.
Clinicopathological features of patients exhibiting gastric cancer according to Lauren classification.
| Lauren classification | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinicopathological features | Cases, n | Diffuse-type (n=36) | Intestinal-type (n=28) | P-value |
| Age, years | – | 54.2±9.1a | 69.7±9.6a | 0.023 |
| Gender | 0.072 | |||
| Male | 41 | 15 | 18 | |
| Female | 23 | 21 | 10 | |
| Maximal tumor size, mm | – | 56.3±23.7a | 51.4±22.6a | 0.264 |
| T stage (AJCC) | 0.020 | |||
| T1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| T2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | |
| T3 | 39 | 28 | 11 | |
| T4 | 9 | 7 | 2 | |
| N stage (AJCC) | 0.032 | |||
| N0 | 18 | 6 | 12 | |
| N1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | |
| N2 | 16 | 11 | 5 | |
| N3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | |
| TNM stage (AJCC) | 0.039 | |||
| I | 15 | 4 | 11 | |
| II | 22 | 13 | 9 | |
| III | 27 | 18 | 9 | |
a
Data are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; TNM, TNM classification of malignant tumors; T, tumor; N, (lymph) nodes; M, metastasis.